Brothers sing ‘No Surrender’ on stage with Bruce Springsteen in The Woodlands

Tuesday night’s Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band show at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion was a wildly fan-interactive experience from start to finish, from Springsteen and company tearing into songs that fans in the pit in front of the stage had requested on homemade poster boards, to pulling up not one, but three people onstage to dance or sing with the band.

A man wrote on poster board that he had “busted his brother out of class” to sing “No Surrender” (a nod to the song’s lyrics) and within seconds of Springsteen reading that, the man and his younger brother were doing just that. The Boss pulled them up on stage to help with the Born In The U.S.A. album cut.

The pair flanked Springsteen and shared a microphone with him, nervous joy enveloping them. The young sibling also made sure to hug guitarist Tom Morello more than once. How did they do singing with Springsteen? It was hard to tell, but they did know the words at least.

According to Springsteen fan site Backstreets in their rundown of the show, the two men were Alex Flores, 28, and his younger brother, Tommy, 16.

Later on a woman got to briefly reenact the music video for “Dancing In The Dark” with Springsteen onstage. You remember, the one with a pre-Friends Courtney Cox? That one. She wasn’t as boisterous as these two brothers were though and seemed to be floored by even being that close to Springsteen, which is understood.
YouTube user Dave Meek caught on camera a once-in-a lifetime moment for two young Bruce fans during Tuesday’s performance at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Check out the video above as the two unnamed fans sing along with The Boss to every word of his “No Surrender,” then check out pics from last night’s show below.